Competitor SpaceX has caught your rocket

The American company Rocket Lab, which is considered a competitor Rasah, caught in the air layout of the first stage of their rocket Electron. The corresponding video is published on YouTube.

In the video of the rocket stage is reset with a single helicopter, a parachute decelerated and caught by another helicopter. The tests took place in March 2020 on the coasts of New Zealand.

In January 2018, Rocket Lab with the world’s only existing rocket ultralight class Electron for the first time successfully launched a payload.

Ultralight two-stage rocket Electron, the Rutherford engine which creates a three-dimensional printer, designed to launch satellites of the CubeSat format. Since the second half of 2020 the company plans to launch Electron every two weeks.